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DESCRIPTION:Bard Graduate Center’s exhibition on the life of artist\, desig
ner\,\njournalist\, and colonial administrator John Lockwood Kipling (1837
-1911) opens\nup questions about visual representations of the colonial en
counter in India\nand its aftermath. Lockwood Kipling\, a significant figu
re in his own time\, is\nbetter remembered today as Rudyard Kipling’s fath
er. He lent his considerable\ntalents to poetry\, journalism\, book illust
rations\, editing\, museum design\,\nfurniture-making\, and the plastic ar
ts more generally. In Screen India\, a film\nseries that accompanies the e
xhibition\, we turn to cinema through the works of\nartists who came of ag
e in the shadow of empire\, war\, and\, decolonization to\nexplore issues
of identity\, interracial intimacy\, and friendship across the\ncolonial d
ivide. Set in the context of a post-imperial world caught up in\nits own
predicament about cross-cultural relations\, and coming seventy years\naft
er the end of British colonial rule in the India\, Screen India presents a
\nseries of films by renowned directors from India\, France\, Italy\, Brit
ain\, and\nthe United States. Scholars from around the country will introd
uce each film\nfollowed by a screening. Adults $8 / Students and Seniors
$5. Five-event pass\, $35. Gallery\nadmission is free with a purchased tic
ket. For tickets and information visit:\nbgc.bard.edu\n\n Rochona\nMajumda
r is\nAssociate Professor of the departments of Cinema and Media Studies a
nd South\nAsian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
She has written\nextensively on the history of gender\, marriage\, and fam
ily in India\,\npostcolonial thought and history\, Indian intellectual his
tory\, and the history\nof Indian cinema. Majumdar’s books include Marriag
e and Modernity: Family\nValues in Colonial Bengal (Duke University Press\
, 2009)\, Writing\nPostcolonial History (Bloomsbury\, 2010). She is co-edi
tor of Civilizing\nEmotions (Oxford University Press\, 2015) and From the
Colonial to the\nPostcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition (Oxford Un
iversity Press\,\n2007). She is currently finishing a book entitled Art Ci
nema in India\nthat analyzes the works of renowned Indian directors such a
s Satyajit Ray\,\nRitwik Ghatak\, and Mrinal Sen to demonstrate unexpected
alliances between art\nand popular cinema in India during a period of pos
tcolonial political upheaval.Debashree Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Middle Eastern\, South Asian and African Studies at
Columbia University. Her research and teaching centers on the history of
modern South Asian visual cultures and industries\, with a focus on late c
olonial Bombay cinema. Her current book project\, “Parallel Action: Bombay
Cinema and the Practice of Modernity\,” presents a material history of ea
rly Bombay cinema (1920s-1940s) that privileges practice\, circuits of wor
k\, and technologies of production\, and draws inspiration from her own ex
perience of working in Mumbai's film and television industries in the earl
y 2000s. Select publications include 'Creating Cinema’s Reading Publics: T
he Emergence of Film Journalism in Bombay\,' in No Limits: Media Studies f
rom India (2013)\, “Scandalous Evidence: Looking for the Bombay Film Actre
ss in an Absent Archive”\, in Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinema
’s Past and Future (2015)\, and 'Tracking Utopias: Technology\, Labor\, an
d Secularism in Bombay Cinema\,' in Media/Utopia(2016). Debashree is an Ed
itor with the peer-reviewed journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies.
\n\nOctober 13\, 2017: Ghare Baire (Home and the World)\, 1984. Directed b
y Satyajit Ray. Introduced by Rochona Majumdar. 120 minutes.November 3\, 2
017: A Passage to India\, 1984. Directed by David Lean. Introduced by Sang
ita Gopal. 164 minutes.November 17\, 2017: The River\, 1951. Directed by J
ean Renoir. Introduced by Priya Jaikumar. 99 minutes.December 1\, 2017: Bh
owani Junction\, 1956. Directed by George Cukor. Introduced by Debashree M
ukherjee. 108 minutes.January 5\, 2018: India: Matri Bhumi\, 1959. Directe
d by Roberto Rossellini. Introduced by Tom Gunning. 90 minutes.We are also
pleased to extend complimentary need-based community tickets by request t
o all ticketed events. To learn more\, please email public.programs@bgc.ba
rd.edu. Leading support for Public Programs at Bard Graduate Center comes
from Gregory Soros and other generous donors.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Screen India
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